Peng T. Ong

Peng T. Ong is the founder and chairman of Encentuate. Peng founded Encentuate in 2001 to address the need to provide enterprises with strong and usable digital identity systems that can be incrementally deployed without extensive expenditures in time and resources.

Prior to founding Encentuate, Peng was the founder and chairman of Interwoven, Inc., the leading provider of content infrastructure. He was the president and CEO of Interwoven through 1997, and its chairman through 2002. During his tenure at Interwoven he led the company to a successful IPO (NASDAQ: IWOV). For his vision and leadership in building Interwoven into the world's leading provider of enterprise-class content infrastructure software, in 2002 Peng was awarded the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering's Alumni Award for Distinguished Service.

Before Interwoven, Peng was co-founder and chief architect of Electric Classifieds, Inc.—the creators of Match.com. He has also held various engineering and management roles at Illustra (now IBM Informix), Sybase Inc., and Gensym Corporation.

Peng co-authored two patents for technologies developed during his time at Interwoven and Electric Classifieds. He also has five pending patents for Encentuate.

More recently in 2002, Peng served as one of the twenty members of Singapore's Economic Review Committee. The ERC was a high-level committee whose task was to review the economic plans for the future of Singapore. Peng serves on the board of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. He is a founding member of the Majulah Connection and also contributes to the Action Committee for Entrepreneurship.

Peng is the chair for the InfoComm Investment Pte. Ltd. Fund, which promotes information & communication technology start-ups in Singapore.

Peng graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and received his Masters of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Updated: January 2006